They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death. Votes: 3
Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever. Votes: 0
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. Votes: 0
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife. Votes: 0
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat. Votes: 0
An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments." Votes: 0
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. Votes: 0
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. Votes: 0
I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am. Votes: 0
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won Votes: 0
When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject. Votes: 0
Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun. Votes: 0
We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it. Votes: 0
The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something. Votes: 0
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. Votes: 0
I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully. Votes: 0
Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women. Votes: 0
The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street. Votes: 0
The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom. Votes: 0
Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code. Votes: 0
This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing-but just barely. Votes: 0
When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them. Votes: 0
A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love. Votes: 0
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side â wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape. Votes: 0
Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know whether he'd have done it any better or quicker had he been married.
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.